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Home office, online meetings and the smartphone as a gateway to the outside world – after long lockdown weeks, the desire for travel, real encounters and experiences grows. And maybe after some creative handwork. This will be possible (soon again) in many places in Germany. A selection:
Port city of Hamburg: gourmet schools from Dim Sum to Köttbullar
Creative excursions in Germany
Binding books is a skill that vacationers in Leipzig can learn in courses. Photo: Henning Kaiser / dpa-tmn
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Binding books is a skill that vacationers in Leipzig can learn in courses. Photo: Henning Kaiser / dpa-tmn
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Macrame is a knot art that was very popular in the 1970s – today it is experiencing a rediscovery. Photo: Franziska Gabbert / dpa-tmn
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Macrame is a knot art that was very popular in the 1970s – today it is experiencing a rediscovery. Photo: Franziska Gabbert / dpa-tmn
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Street Art: The company MyGraffitiworkshop offers courses in Berlin’s Mauerpark. Photo: Robert Günther / dpa-tmn
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Street Art: The company MyGraffitiworkshop offers courses in Berlin’s Mauerpark. Photo: Robert Günther / dpa-tmn
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Graffiti in the Mauerpark – those interested can grab a spray can themselves. Photo: Robert Günther / dpa-tmn
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Graffiti in the Mauerpark – those interested can grab a spray can themselves. Photo: Robert Günther / dpa-tmn
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The Meissen House Adventure World is housed in an ultra-modern building – and shows the traditional art of porcelain production. Photo: MEISSEN / dpa-tmn
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The Meissen House Adventure World is housed in an ultra-modern building – and shows the traditional art of porcelain production. Photo: MEISSEN / dpa-tmn
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Why not get creative while on vacation – and, for example, get a taste of porcelain painting? Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst / dpa-tmn
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Why not get creative while on vacation – and, for example, get a taste of porcelain painting? Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst / dpa-tmn
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Craftsmanship for beginners: individual workshop in the Haus Meissen adventure world. Photo: MEISSEN / dpa-tmn
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Craftsmanship for beginners: individual workshop in the Haus Meissen adventure world. Photo: MEISSEN / dpa-tmn
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City of “pepper sacks”: Spices from all over the world were once stored in Hamburg’s warehouse district. Photo: Christin Klose / dpa-tmn
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City of “pepper sacks”: Spices from all over the world were once stored in Hamburg’s warehouse district. Photo: Christin Klose / dpa-tmn
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Painting on vacation: The creative tour operator Artistravel offers courses on all aspects of painting. Photo: Benedikt Ziegler / Artistravel / dpa-tmn
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Painting on vacation: The creative tour operator Artistravel offers courses on all aspects of painting. Photo: Benedikt Ziegler / Artistravel / dpa-tmn
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Approaching the dishes through the aromas – this is what participants in a spice cooking course at Miomente learn. Photo: Miomente / dpa-tmn
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Approaching the dishes through the aromas – this is what participants in a spice cooking course at Miomente learn. Photo: Miomente / dpa-tmn
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What can I make with turmeric? – Spice cooking course at Miomente. Photo: Miomente / dpa-tmn
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What can I make with turmeric? – Spice cooking course at Miomente. Photo: Miomente / dpa-tmn
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The chalk cliffs inspired Caspar David Friedrich – in the Jasmund National Park visitors can get creative themselves. Photo: Jens Büttner / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa-tmn
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The chalk cliffs inspired Caspar David Friedrich – in the Jasmund National Park visitors can get creative themselves. Photo: Jens Büttner / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa-tmn
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Macrame knot art at Su Makramee: Susan Rostam offers workshops in Cologne where beginners can learn the art. Photo: Susan Rostam / SU MAKRAMEE / dpa-tmn
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Macrame knot art at Su Makramee: Susan Rostam offers workshops in Cologne where beginners can learn the art. Photo: Susan Rostam / SU MAKRAMEE / dpa-tmn
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Cologne: artistic knots with macrame
The metropolis on the Rhine is not only a cathedral, mosque and junk city, but also one of the most important transport hubs in Europe. Cologne is rich in cultural influences. So where could it be nicer – knotted? Neither bowline nor anchor stitch are meant, but sailors could definitely have an advantage if they learn the artful knotting technique from the Orient: macrame.
is the name of one of the numerous knot enthusiasts. “As half a Persian, I practically made knotting in my blood and turned my hobby into a profession two years ago,” says the 28-year-old. Whether it’s a hanging basket, a wall hanging or a wonderful dream catcher: In three hours beginners can learn basic knots in their workshops and take their own product home with them.
Rügen: painting by the sea
offers courses in painting and photography across Germany and Europe.
Dresden and Meißen: the hub of the pottery trade
August the Strong was attacked by the “maladie de porcelaine”, the addiction to porcelain. Like many other aristocrats in the 17th century, the Elector of Saxony was seized with a passion for collecting Chinese porcelain. An expensive business.
Willing to manufacture the fine porcelain himself, August 1702 commissioned the alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger. In 1708 this achieved the breakthrough. In 1910, August the Strong founded the first European porcelain factory in Albrechtsburg in Meißen – the famous Meißen porcelains were born.
Workshops or taster courses at the pottery wheel. In other cities, too, interested parties can have their own ceramics painted and fired in made-by-you studios. “Ceramic-to-go” is available in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Chemnitz, for example.
Leipzig: The Art of Bookbinding
Leipzig was Germany’s most important book city as early as the 17th century. Later not only the most important book fairs took place here. Leipzig was also the location of type foundries, printers, paper dealers and large bookbinders. Numerous publishers had locations in the graphic quarter.
World War II bombs wiped out a large part of the area, including the magnificent bookseller’s house. This was followed by expropriations or the migration of book businesses. Since the fall of the Wall, however, the district has gradually been revived.
In the place of the historic bookseller’s house stands the House of the Book, built in 1996, in which, among other things, the Literaturhaus Leipzig invites you to readings and exhibitions.
in Leipzig-Gohlis, on the other hand, visitors can learn the craft of bookbinding. Whether Coptic binding or thread stitching: the treasures you have bound yourself can be filled with souvenir photos – or better: even with your own words?
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